Reviews

Writer/Dir.Tom Edmunds. UK. 2018. 90 mins A watchable British cast explore the meaning of life in Noirish comedy that never quite catches fire despite some powerful elements. Dead in a Week is...

Dir: Laurent Cantet | Writer: Robin Campillo | France | Cast: Marina Fois, Matthieu Lucci | 114min | Drama Laurent Cantet follows his middle-aged rumination Return to Ithaca (2014) with an equally unsettling...

Dir.: Colin Higgins; Cast: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden; USA 1980, 109 min. Colin Higgins' revenge comedy 9 to 5 is in many ways a symbol...

Russian Film Week is back for the third year running. From 25 November to 2 December the event will take place in London at BFI Southbank, Regent Street Cinema, Curzon...

Dir.: Astrid Schult; Cast: Carolyn Genzkow, Michel Degen, Elisabeth Degen; Deutschland 2017, 75' Winter Hunt is an earnest attempt to address the crimes of the Holocaust. Unfortunately the drama is hampered...

Dir.: Efrat Mishori, Dana Goldberg; Cast: Smira Saraya, Evgenia Dodina, Y. Goldberg; Israel 2018, 77 min. Poet Efrat Mishori and filmmaker Dana Goldberg's DEATH OF A POETESS is a hauntingly realistic but...

Dir.: Julius Avery; Cast: Jovan Adepo. Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbœk; USA 2018, 109 min. Britain won the war? Not according to OVERLORD. Julius Avery (Son of a Gun) and his...

The BFI's upcoming COMEDY GENIUS SEASON features a new set of four shorts starring the queen of silent comedy, Mabel Normand. Mabel Normand (1892-1930) had a short but eventful life: she...

Dir.: Eva Gardos; Cast: Krisztian Kolovratnik, Reka Tenki, Janos Kulka, Adel Kovats, Franziska Töröcsik; Hungary 2017, 94 min. Veteran director Eva Gardos (An American Rhapsody) serves up a slick but conventional...